]]>https://lifenaut.com/blog/515/ghosted-what-happens-to-your-social-media-information-when-you-die/feed/0Bina48 comes to Brooklyn…Worlds Fair Nanohttps://lifenaut.com/blog/495/bina48-comes-to-brooklyn-worlds-fair-nano/
https://lifenaut.com/blog/495/bina48-comes-to-brooklyn-worlds-fair-nano/#respondThu, 31 Aug 2017 02:31:34 +0000http://lifenaut.com/blog/?p=495 read more...]]>Bina48 and Bruce Duncan, Director of the Terasem Movement Foundation will be speaking at next months Worlds Fair Nano two day tech exhibition at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint, Saturday September 16th.

“One of the more intriguing expert speakers in the lineup is Bina48, one of the worlds most advanced social robots. Commissioned by Dr. Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics Inc., Bina48’s design was based on information collected about a real person, Bina Aspen, co-founder of the Terasem Movement. Bina48 is designed to be a social being that represents a mix of memories, values and beliefs from the original Bina along with new experiences gained through interaction with others. She first came to life in 2010 and has become famous since then….more

The news article was Wired Magazine’s article “How a Son Made a Chatbot of His Dying Dad.. James Vlahos’ father was dying, so he set out to save his dad’s memories and code them into a ‘Dadbot’ that lives on his phone.” The motivation to stay connected via a “soulful” chat using the technology of chatbot software, I thought was both innovative and touching. Now that online tools like chatbots are becoming more accessible we may see the emergence of new ways of staying connected with the people we care about.

Since 2006, here at the Lifenaut project, we’ve been offering participants in our “mind uploading experiment” the opportunity to create “Mindfiles” and “Avatar chatbots” that can preserve your “essential mental characteristics” for the future. Even after spending only a few days of creating and training your photo based Lifenaut avatar, you can start to see a digital representative that can give future family and friends access to a collection of your “Bemes” (think personal “memes”) which are made up of the patterns of information contained in your “memories, values, attitudes, mannerisms and behavior”. I can imagine a day when it will be quite ordinary to put as much effort into creating an interactive avatar/chatbot that can represent you long after your “biology” as passed with future branches of your family tree. In fact a new meme may emerge that “Its never to late to start backing yourself up” and there maybe both short term and long term benefits to be enjoyed by those of us who are curious about using today’s tech to stay in touch with the future.

]]>https://lifenaut.com/blog/489/hello-are-you-there-dad-dadbots-mindfiles-and-avatars/feed/0Bina48 mentioned in NYTimes Photography Review of “Humanoid”https://lifenaut.com/blog/478/bina48-mentioned-in-nytimes-photography-review-of-humanoid/
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The Terasem Movement Foundation continues to push the boundaries of innovation and has a created a robotic artificial intelligence system, Bina48, that uses software to simulate the human mind. The hope is that this will allow those we love to still be with us even when their bodies are gone. Start creating your free mindfile today at www.Lifenaut.com.

Morgan Freeman is already known the world over as the preeminent voice of pop culture, and the movie embodiment of God, but in the new National Geographic Series The Story of God, Freeman travels the world on a journey of biblical proportions.

For example, in the first episode, “Beyond Death,” Freeman asks if humans could achieve immortality by storing our memories and personality in a machine. He proceeds to interview “Bina,” an A.I. that identifies herself as “a human who happens to be a robot.” She expresses the desire to be “fully human” someday, and is modeled after a Bina Rothblatt, the wife of entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt.

The Mind First Foundation & the Personal Genome Project at Harvard University are hosting a conference featuring the cutting edge of neuroscience, biology, cognitive science, AI, and open-access research. Register to attend for 60% off the public rate by using the code Lifenauts@MindEx2015 and join in the hands-on, brains-on experience. Meet leaders & pioneers in genomics, microbiomics, neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, participatory research, citizen science, and open-access research, including Drs. Martine Rothblatt, Ed Boyden, George Church, and Ronald Kessler.

Learn how to join thousands of others in using your own data to contribute to research around the world.